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...mouthpiece on the weekends, Hanson is the Peter Parker of the Crimson football squad.His unassuming personality makes you forget he is a standout player, and his electrifying play makes you forget he is a freshman.Hanson is the quintessential normal guy off the field: quiet, reserved, and noticeably polite. A human evolutionary biology concentrator and aspiring doctor, Hanson is truly dedicated to his schoolwork off the field. You can usually find him sporting an abnormally large backpack as he fixes his retainer with his index finger. Neither his size nor his demeanor gives off the typical airs of a football player...
...clear. It's set out in the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a doctrine adopted by the U.N. World Summit in 2005 - the largest gathering of world leaders in history - that made clear that a nation forfeits its right to sovereignty if it unleashes or is unable to prevent massive human-rights abuses on its soil. R2P was born from the collective shame over global inaction during atrocities in places such as Cambodia, Rwanda and Srebrenica. The most striking current example of R2P in effect is in Darfur, where the U.N. has agreed to deploy 26,000 peacekeepers to end genocide...
...promote Wolpe’s new book, “Why Faith Matters.” Wolpe—named the number one pulpit rabbi in America by Newsweek earlier this year—and Pinker—an avowed atheist and best-selling author of books on the human mind and language—passed a microphone back and forth, engaging in an enthusiastic conversation without a moderator. “If you’re going to hang yourself, you should do it from a high tree,” joked Wolpe about speaking alongside Pinker. The California...
...central government, according to the Web site. “The war may appear to have ceased, but it will cost us more to restore the hope and happiness that used to take place in this nation” said Julian J. Atim, a Ugandan physician and human rights activist. Speaking to the crowd assembled in Boston Common after the walk, Atim said that students could help the cause simply by making phone calls and forwarding e-mails, even without attending events like the GuluWalk...
...fatalities on both sides. Chinese authorities swiftly sealed off Tibet and rounded up hundreds of suspects, some of whom reportedly remain in jail nearly eight months later. With access to the region still almost completely blocked, there have been only intermittent reports of further protests and alleged abuses and human rights violations by Chinese security forces attempting to quash the simmering dissent. Resentment against Beijing has exploded sporadically among the roughly six million Tibetans living in the mountainous region ever since troops of the People's Liberation Army invaded...